Norristown Fire Department and IBEW Local Union 380 team up to install smoke detectors

By
Adrianna Hoff, The Times Herald

Saturday, November 16, 2013

NORRISTOWN — Members of the Norristown Fire Department and IBEW Local Union 380 teamed up Saturday to install free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in homes.

The teams knocked on doors of homes located on the 500 block of Norris Street, the 500 block of Barbadoes Street and the 100 block of West Marshall Street, installing more than 300 devices over the course of the day.

Norristown Fire Chief Tom O’Donnell recommended that homes have a smoke detector on each level, as well as a carbon monoxide detector on the level where the family sleeps.

“It’s critical to have a smoke detector in every home,” O’Donnell said.

He also said that smoke detector batteries should be replaced twice a year unless they are 10-year lithium batteries.

Any Norristown residents in need of a smoke detector or with questions about installation should contact the Norristown Fire Department’s smoke detector hotline at 610-270-2870.